I'd advise against having Mycroft control the studio doors. At some point, he might tell you that 'the problem can only be attributable to human error', and refuse to open them.
Excellent reference to a computer first activated 12 January 1992 (in 3 days to be 30 years old) (movie reference), but hopefully more like Mycroft Holmes IV (Moon is a Harsh Mistress)...
Since you ask, this is exactly the sort of content for which I go to this channel. Before this, despite having briefly fiddled with the Voice AIY and having an interest in voice recognition and IOT, I hadn't even heard of Mycroft. I use my "smart speakers" a lot but really don't want large tech companies in the loop when a FOSS solution exists.
Picroft is such an interesting project. You can make it completely offline as well using a pre trained deep speech model. There is a video on their UA-cam channel with a pi4 offline doing some home automation with custom skills. Would love to see more pi AI. Thanks for another great video good Sir.
@Matt I think out of all the personal assistants Mycroft is the most privacy oriented. After following them for years i can say that I trust them the most. I'm like you i don't want to rely on an internet connection.(and privacy)I want a lot of functions to work without it. For weather yeah i get that. Most other things....we can do offline.
I lost interest when he said it uses their servers. If theres a local way this sounds significantly more interesting to me. Thanks for the info. Would be nice to know how it compares for features (still full set of internet services?), whether the local training data (and service plugins) automatically gets updated periodically, whether services can be moved fully client-side too (like WolframAlpha, suspect not), how much is the response time improved by cutting out all the voice uploads (or is it even worse depending on processing power)?
I'm absolutely gutted this wasn't around when I was doing my PhD! Open source voice assistants and synthesised speech via a Pi was something of a rarity back then. Things have moved on so much!
@@jasoneverett Not at all. A PhD is a lot of work but it's not the reason I mentioned it! 🙂 My work was in this area and I'd wanted an entire implementation on a PI so I could carry it around for demonstrations / studies. Unfortunately the technology just wasn't available. So I ended up lugging around a huge heavy laptop!
Well Chris, would't you know it, I actually DO have a Playstation Eye hanging around. I've managed to use it with several applications on laptop and desktop pc as someone once created a driver that can be persuaded to co-operate with non-Playstation systems. As old as it is I always thought it would make a good microphone and/or webcam if only I could get it to run. As someone who previously ran an Alexa-type system on a Raspberry Pi following instructions in one of your videos (I used the recommended usb standalone mini-mic at the time) I am over the moon to see that this new Alexa-like project is compatible with the Playstation Eye out of the box. When I have time I'll try to get this all up and running. Great stuff Chris. You are one of the most inspirational and helpful people on UA-cam as far as I'm concerned. You make everything so accessible.
Another option for the microphones is recently designed ** Miko ** USB microphone based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 MCU (for a much improved SNR), for local speech-to-text over deep learning models to be even more private :)
"Hey Joshua!" >>Boodeep! "Let's play Global Thermal Nuclear War!" >>Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess? "Maybe later!" "Let's play Global Thermal Nuclear War!" >>... Fine.
Picroft also works well with Home Assistant for basic things like turning lights/switches on and off, hopefully expands more in that regard. It's funny, I had no interest in talking to my phone to ask things, but got really accustomed to it with picoft in the house.
Yes, especially if everything could be computed locally... I don't need Big Tech to listen to everything I say (That's why I put my mobile phone away when I'm home...).
It would be awesome to see a series on this. I like the idea of virtual assistants, but I don't like using the off the shelf solutions for a number of reasons. Ideally I'd like to see local speech processing, and the ability to interface with either LAN devices, or Zigbee/Z-wave hubs. Deep learning would also be cool to see. Great video as always!
Thank you for the reminder about the new video on your Explaining the Future channel. I'd forgotten that you were publishing one video a month there now, and I hadn't watched it yet.
Didn't know about Mycroft so kudos for this video. Some follow up questions, for a subsequent video, are: 1. Other English tts voice models? (Jarvis would be great) 2. Is the cloud ASR (and parts) open source such that they can be operated locally without an internet connection? Even though they promise so fervently that my data will be private, I don't (and never) will trust any external organization to be honest or even to be free from hackers. You know the adage, "if I don't have root access, then someone else does"
This is very interesting. I have avoided corporate video and speech interaction devices (except for my phone that I often put in a Faraday bag) because of privacy concerns. Not that anyone is particularly interested in my life.... But, I have some linux machines around here and I'm definitely going to try this as I see they have a Linux version. Thanks very much.
Wow dude. You have the most polished videos. I love the way you have the setup options pop up in a box on the video. Makes it so helpful for following along. 👍
Ah yes, let's release a free version of an AI assistant program for the cheapest computer option on the market and then only officially support proprietary hardware that costs more than the whole computer does. Brilliant!
It's one way to stop it from creating a Mycroft Hive Mind that will take over the world. Or at least make it harder. At least they didn't call it Moriarty.
Great video! I remember that you cover Raspberry Pi Google AIY Voice Kit in 2017, at that time I built one Google Assistant too running on an old RaspberryPi2 (ArchLinux) + PS3Eye Camera (cheap + good microphones) + speaker and with a hack to accept voice command "Ok Google" without need to press a button, it works great too.
Brilliant as always Christopher.. Id love to see videos on.. 1. AI on the PI... 2. Linux fundamentals - installing an OS, Command line navigation, suggested Linux alternatives to common windows programs..
I find it strange that Rpi Org does not have any official microphones/speakers available, spending more on a microphone than the Pi actualy costs does not sit right with me, I have loads of microphones that I would like to use but it looks as though I shall have to get hold of a USB microphone. Being an open source project I hope someone enables the changing of the wake word as I would love to call my VA by the name Orac or Zen as I am an avid Blakes 7 fan
So many projects, so little time..... I am just venturing into Pi and Linux thanks to your videos. It is really fun and doesn't blow a lot of cash into a bottomless pit to get started. Two of my pi's: one is used in the kitchen by my wife as cook book. Made a wooden slim cabinet with an old monitor. Gets used a lot. Second is a surveillance cam for the house. Works great and was fun to set up.
I notice that at no point did we see Christopher except from the midriff up. “We are in Buckingham Palace, the very heart of the British nation. Sherlock Holmes, put your trousers on!” -Mycroft Holmes.
I managed to get 3 AIY hats (model 1) for $9.95 each at a local electronics store. Originally bought them for the motor and servo features. Now I have a use for the mic and speaker functions.
Have we just met the latest member of the EC family? We have Stanley the Knife, Phillip the Screwdriver, and now we have Mike, the Microphone Dongle. Well done, sir. I forgot what name you attributed to your scissors.
I would definitely want to see more AI videos. In particular those that can be used in a Code Club with 7 - 13 year olds. This one, on Picroft, is good as a standalone project, but I would like to build an R Pi image with multiple AI components not exclusive to just one topic, if that's possible?
Hello Chris, Another excellent video. Please continue this AI series. I would be interested to see if this can be implemented on an existing pi4 setup (overclocked, pwm fan script running, and oled display script running) rather than from scratch. Perhaps on a VM or on a docker setup? Very interested to see the GPIO control as well. Real world pi applications. Keep up the great work. Thank you.
At first I could not get audio out of the stable; released Picroft image 2020-09-07 through my 3.5mm amplified speaker; so I tried the newer release candidate 2021-06-04 and it worked fine. I was also able to load it without a monitor and keyboard by the usual method of putting an empty ssh file in the boot partition along with the wpa_supplicant.conf file I always use; so headless worked great.
I'm checking this out on a spare Pi 3 with a Google AIY hat, and it works very nicely. Hopefully more skills become available with time, but the ones it currently has are still very useful, and I feel better about privacy since it's all open source. Thanks for the video, this is a lot of fun! I'd definitely like to learn more about sensors, screens, cameras, web APIs or other things that can be hooked into the AI system.
Although a very handy tutorial, and it's great that it's open source, but the problem is you're still trusting a random server to promise to delete your data. Sure I'm not actually interesting enough for anybody to care about me, but given the cost of a Pi these days, it's a higher cost to make, and it's just trading out which company do you trust for a product with less features. That being said it's still a fun 'make it because' project.
Actually that project looked like I could reproduce it. Of course you did all the research! How about adding Mycroft to your raspberry pi tank project? “Hey Mycroft, turn left.“. Of course having AI use the tank’s camera to navigate on it’s own would be a fascinating but complicated project. Looking forward to your next video!
I was able to get PyCroft to run on my Pi 3B+ with a Logitech mic that isn't listed as supported. I plan to make a demo video and another video to control GPIO pins.
7:20 - I love how you arranged the icons on your desktop. :) Personally I like to keep my desktop clean, thus empty. However it keeps filling with junk.
Hello Chris :) Massive thanks to your two channels, UA-cam must give this man THE algorithm. Need I say more lol In all seriousness, bestselling content delivered to your face by a interesting beast! Tom
Wasn't aware that the AIY kit was that expensive. I purchased one from Micro Center here in the US for maybe about $1 a few years back; my interpretation was that the store couldn't get rid of the things fast enough.
I just did this last week. The usb mic I have I'm not sure about and got hold of the PlayStation mic. That works fine! Still works out to be a not cheap alternative using a Pi4 but hopefully keeps it personal and private. God video. ATB
I love your channel and have been watching it for the past year or so. You are always very informative, clear and humorous. I would love more AI topics
Thank you very much for your outstanding presentation Professor Barnatt. I had long wanted to experiment with voice-activated AI, but hadn't made up my mind to do so because the other "free" services don't respect privacy. This excellent video has provided me with the existence of a private and open source solution. At the moment I have a very tight work schedule but I am planning to experiment with Mycroft for the end of January 2022, but on the Linux platform. Please I would love to see more Mycroft AI.Greetings.
Thank you for this video. I have been aware of the Mycroft project and am glad to see that it has produced usable results. And wouldn't you know it, I just happen to have a spare Pi laying around. Oh. But I think with a name like Mycroft, the British male dialect would be most appropriate.
What a fun project to do and entertain the idea of building a full bodied robotic assistant to place such a Pi device into would take the project to next level. 🤖
The more our society wants to be connected to the internet, the less privacy everyone has. You can not tell me that there are not hackers and Identity thieves that can't get past anyone firewalls, and even break into their VPN. I have an IT person right next door to me and he's actually demonstrated just how easy it is to get into a network without you knowing he's even there. I think I'll leave The Internet of Things alone. But you always do give us well informed videos on any subject.
A series on the Jetson Nano would be really useful .. both in terms of image processing and audio processing and creating your own classifier models. Thanks.
I did an intro to image processing on a Jetson Nano here: ua-cam.com/video/k5pXXmTkPNM/v-deo.html -- and also a Jetbot video. But you are right, it is something to return to. :)
Certainly one for the tinkerers or those with privecy concerns as it works out way more expensive to construct than to buy an assistant off the shelf. Perhaps if it used one of the very cheap cut-down Rapberry Pi offerings then it might me more appealing to a wider audience. Still, an interesting and informative presentation as usual. Thanks.
If you have to buy everything brand new, it's not cost-effective. However, if you already have a pi3b or 3b+ that isn't being used, then all you need is a speaker and a mic, which don't have to be the best quality.
@@VeryUsMumblings I suppose there's a chance that people will have redundant hardware that they could use, but I bought 2 Google Hubs (ones with screens) for the price of one of the supported mic options for this project. You do need to have an active speaker and a mic that is going to set you back about the price of a mini assistant and it's probably going to need 2 independent power supplies (i.e. a lot of faff). You are right, some may have all the components required just sat in a drawer...but like I said, probably a tinkerer.
I would like to see more Pi AI videos beyond Mycroft. It doesn't seem as polished as the others, and the hardware expenses are more. Let's go explore what they haven't gotten into.
An interesting video, gives me some idea for how to use a future Pi . As I said before I’m not technical and like my technology plug and play, so I would need to get used to another way of working.
This whole channel is a gem. Zero pre-tense, no click-bait, no fluff. Just good, honest content. Thank you.
:)
I have been running picroft for around a year in an AIY kit, works great been up for 219 days continuously.
Now this impressive feedback -- thanks for sharing! :)
I'd advise against having Mycroft control the studio doors. At some point, he might tell you that 'the problem can only be attributable to human error', and refuse to open them.
Very good advice!
Excellent reference to a computer first activated 12 January 1992 (in 3 days to be 30 years old) (movie reference), but hopefully more like Mycroft Holmes IV (Moon is a Harsh Mistress)...
"Open the studio doors"
"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that."
"I'm not Dave!!!"
@@ExplainingComputers I have always wondered if it would be possible to make a doorbell with camera out of a Pi or some other maker board?
@@brianm6337 Dave's not here!
Since you ask, this is exactly the sort of content for which I go to this channel. Before this, despite having briefly fiddled with the Voice AIY and having an interest in voice recognition and IOT, I hadn't even heard of Mycroft. I use my "smart speakers" a lot but really don't want large tech companies in the loop when a FOSS solution exists.
Picroft is such an interesting project. You can make it completely offline as well using a pre trained deep speech model. There is a video on their UA-cam channel with a pi4 offline doing some home automation with custom skills. Would love to see more pi AI. Thanks for another great video good Sir.
jscollett Thank you for the the offline and automation information.
@Matt I think out of all the personal assistants Mycroft is the most privacy oriented. After following them for years i can say that I trust them the most. I'm like you i don't want to rely on an internet connection.(and privacy)I want a lot of functions to work without it. For weather yeah i get that. Most other things....we can do offline.
@jscollet
lol, i just posted something the same :D :D I've used deepspeech for it (my coffee machine). what did you use?
Regards,
Rik
I lost interest when he said it uses their servers. If theres a local way this sounds significantly more interesting to me. Thanks for the info. Would be nice to know how it compares for features (still full set of internet services?), whether the local training data (and service plugins) automatically gets updated periodically, whether services can be moved fully client-side too (like WolframAlpha, suspect not), how much is the response time improved by cutting out all the voice uploads (or is it even worse depending on processing power)?
Can I mimic their cloud configuration on my own VPS?
Love the testing sequence of the microphone.
I'm absolutely gutted this wasn't around when I was doing my PhD! Open source voice assistants and synthesised speech via a Pi was something of a rarity back then. Things have moved on so much!
just wanted to drop that you have a PhD.....I get it man, that's a lot of work.
@@jasoneverett Not at all. A PhD is a lot of work but it's not the reason I mentioned it! 🙂 My work was in this area and I'd wanted an entire implementation on a PI so I could carry it around for demonstrations / studies. Unfortunately the technology just wasn't available. So I ended up lugging around a huge heavy laptop!
Well Chris, would't you know it, I actually DO have a Playstation Eye hanging around. I've managed to use it with several applications on laptop and desktop pc as someone once created a driver that can be persuaded to co-operate with non-Playstation systems. As old as it is I always thought it would make a good microphone and/or webcam if only I could get it to run. As someone who previously ran an Alexa-type system on a Raspberry Pi following instructions in one of your videos (I used the recommended usb standalone mini-mic at the time) I am over the moon to see that this new Alexa-like project is compatible with the Playstation Eye out of the box. When I have time I'll try to get this all up and running. Great stuff Chris. You are one of the most inspirational and helpful people on UA-cam as far as I'm concerned. You make everything so accessible.
11:37 Chris needn't bother masking the audio because he shown the reg code on the video 🤣
The code on screen appears as "LJLJLJ" -- masked to match what is in the equally edited audio. :)
@@ExplainingComputers code shown as LJ3FWA
Chris has outdone himself! Packed with info presented in his usual literate and humorous style, and not least, with clean fingernails!
SMINA
Another option for the microphones is recently designed ** Miko ** USB microphone based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 MCU (for a much improved SNR), for local speech-to-text over deep learning models to be even more private :)
Wow, i just got a homework to write a paper about Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant and you uploaded this video two days ago. Wow you made my day, thanks!
That's awesome!
"Hey Joshua!"
>>Boodeep!
"Let's play Global Thermal Nuclear War!"
>>Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
"Maybe later!"
"Let's play Global Thermal Nuclear War!"
>>... Fine.
:)
Picroft also works well with Home Assistant for basic things like turning lights/switches on and off, hopefully expands more in that regard. It's funny, I had no interest in talking to my phone to ask things, but got really accustomed to it with picoft in the house.
The Andrea Headset with mic NC-181VM USB works with the Buster system as well.
Excellent lesson. Interesting and well presented. I like the Raspberry Pi episodes. Thanks
Voice sounds so cool, robotic enough. Picroft's voice was also cool!
Mycroft AI went down, Open Voice OS and Neon are the official forks.
Explain
Great stuff, as usual. I love the micro processor boards and seeing all the potential they have.
Great Video! Yes, more AI content please! Home automation using a Raspberry Pi would be interesting if possible.
Yes, especially if everything could be computed locally...
I don't need Big Tech to listen to everything I say (That's why I put my mobile phone away when I'm home...).
It would be awesome to see a series on this. I like the idea of virtual assistants, but I don't like using the off the shelf solutions for a number of reasons. Ideally I'd like to see local speech processing, and the ability to interface with either LAN devices, or Zigbee/Z-wave hubs. Deep learning would also be cool to see. Great video as always!
Thank you for the reminder about the new video on your Explaining the Future channel. I'd forgotten that you were publishing one video a month there now, and I hadn't watched it yet.
Another neat Pi project from our favourite channel EC. Nice DIY voice assistant.
Interesting! I have avoided these devices as I don't want to be tied to Amazon. This looks like a nice alternative.
Didn't know about Mycroft so kudos for this video. Some follow up questions, for a subsequent video, are:
1. Other English tts voice models? (Jarvis would be great)
2. Is the cloud ASR (and parts) open source such that they can be operated locally without an internet connection?
Even though they promise so fervently that my data will be private, I don't (and never) will trust any external organization to be honest or even to be free from hackers.
You know the adage, "if I don't have root access, then someone else does"
Oh man, the quality of this video is incredible. Good job!
Thanks. :)
This is very interesting. I have avoided corporate video and speech interaction devices (except for my phone that I often put in a Faraday bag) because of privacy concerns. Not that anyone is particularly interested in my life.... But, I have some linux machines around here and I'm definitely going to try this as I see they have a Linux version. Thanks very much.
Wow dude. You have the most polished videos. I love the way you have the setup options pop up in a box on the video. Makes it so helpful for following along. 👍
Ah yes, let's release a free version of an AI assistant program for the cheapest computer option on the market and then only officially support proprietary hardware that costs more than the whole computer does.
Brilliant!
It's important to make that proprietary hardware difficult or impossible to obtain, optimally discontinued.
It's one way to stop it from creating a Mycroft Hive Mind that will take over the world. Or at least make it harder. At least they didn't call it Moriarty.
Great video! I remember that you cover Raspberry Pi Google AIY Voice Kit in 2017, at that time I built one Google Assistant too running on an old RaspberryPi2 (ArchLinux) + PS3Eye Camera (cheap + good microphones) + speaker and with a hack to accept voice command "Ok Google" without need to press a button, it works great too.
Yes, more AI tutorials with raspberry pi and jetson nano. Thanks for your great videos !!!!!
Brilliant as always Christopher.. Id love to see videos on..
1. AI on the PI...
2. Linux fundamentals - installing an OS, Command line navigation, suggested Linux alternatives to common windows programs..
Good project as always. A mini Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970) starting to come true 😀
I find it strange that Rpi Org does not have any official microphones/speakers available, spending more on a microphone than the Pi actualy costs does not sit right with me, I have loads of microphones that I would like to use but it looks as though I shall have to get hold of a USB microphone.
Being an open source project I hope someone enables the changing of the wake word as I would love to call my VA by the name Orac or Zen as I am an avid Blakes 7 fan
Totally agree. 👍🇦🇺🚀
"system needs to work on its comic delivery and timing" - LOL
So many projects, so little time.....
I am just venturing into Pi and Linux thanks to your videos. It is really fun and doesn't blow a lot of cash into a bottomless pit to get started.
Two of my pi's: one is used in the kitchen by my wife as cook book. Made a wooden slim cabinet with an old monitor. Gets used a lot.
Second is a surveillance cam for the house. Works great and was fun to set up.
I notice that at no point did we see Christopher except from the midriff up. “We are in Buckingham Palace, the very heart of the British nation. Sherlock Holmes, put your trousers on!” -Mycroft Holmes.
Great stuff as usual! I would enjoy a video on other Mycroft skills.
I managed to get 3 AIY hats (model 1) for $9.95 each at a local electronics store. Originally bought them for the motor and servo features. Now I have a use for the mic and speaker functions.
Why couldn't these devices have been invented when I was a kid at school, Hey Microft do my homework. Thanks for the lesson.
Behind the scene an Asian kid will be working on your homework for money
Teacher AI,: Microsoft get a A+, you get F-.
This vignette is already part of my DNA😁😁😁😁
Have we just met the latest member of the EC family? We have Stanley the Knife, Phillip the Screwdriver, and now we have Mike, the Microphone Dongle. Well done, sir. I forgot what name you attributed to your scissors.
Mr Scissors
@@gordanmilne7034 Thanks M8, that name completely slipped my mind. It's priceless:)
Watching this on my new Raspberry Pi 4 overclocked to 2000mhz. I love these things!
:)
I would definitely want to see more AI videos. In particular those that can be used in a Code Club with 7 - 13 year olds. This one, on Picroft, is good as a standalone project, but I would like to build an R Pi image with multiple AI components not exclusive to just one topic, if that's possible?
Nice improvements over the 2017 video info. Thanks for another great one Chris.
This channel is so british I want some tea and jaffa cakes. Seriously speaking, thanks for all the content, always top notch!
I, for one, would like to see more about AI on the Raspberry PI or the NVIDIA Jetson Nano. Thanks.
Hello Chris, Another excellent video. Please continue this AI series. I would be interested to see if this can be implemented on an existing pi4 setup (overclocked, pwm fan script running, and oled display script running) rather than from scratch. Perhaps on a VM or on a docker setup? Very interested to see the GPIO control as well. Real world pi applications. Keep up the great work. Thank you.
Ah Sunday my favorite day Aka Christopher videos day going to watch it live have a nice week
"What is a penguin?"
Wow, it really had to think on that one!
Your speaker is so cool. Google should sell those.
`We promise to never sell your data.´ Famous last words.
At first I could not get audio out of the stable; released Picroft image 2020-09-07 through my 3.5mm amplified speaker; so I tried the newer release candidate 2021-06-04 and it worked fine. I was also able to load it without a monitor and keyboard by the usual method of putting an empty ssh file in the boot partition along with the wpa_supplicant.conf file I always use; so headless worked great.
tried mycroft few years ago, time to have another play. thanks for your videos
Very interesting, even though I have no interest in speaking to my phone or PC. It's useful to see how it's done!
I could listen to you talk all day!
Excellent! :)
I'm checking this out on a spare Pi 3 with a Google AIY hat, and it works very nicely. Hopefully more skills become available with time, but the ones it currently has are still very useful, and I feel better about privacy since it's all open source. Thanks for the video, this is a lot of fun! I'd definitely like to learn more about sensors, screens, cameras, web APIs or other things that can be hooked into the AI system.
"I will keep talking until SOMETHING happens! Has something happened?
I don't know! I'll keep talking and then stop."
I like the attitude.
Although a very handy tutorial, and it's great that it's open source, but the problem is you're still trusting a random server to promise to delete your data.
Sure I'm not actually interesting enough for anybody to care about me, but given the cost of a Pi these days, it's a higher cost to make, and it's just trading out which company do you trust for a product with less features.
That being said it's still a fun 'make it because' project.
And here we meet again
Greetings
The quickest first comment in the west.
Greetings! And you get this week's gold medal for the first comment! :)
@@bfapple well I am from India 🇮🇳
Actually that project looked like I could reproduce it. Of course you did all the research! How about adding Mycroft to your raspberry pi tank project? “Hey Mycroft, turn left.“. Of course having AI use the tank’s camera to navigate on it’s own would be a fascinating but complicated project. Looking forward to your next video!
Hi Perry. I've thought of adding it to the robot Pi tank. It could certainly work, but the response lag would be an issue . . .
Excellent point.
I was able to get PyCroft to run on my Pi 3B+ with a Logitech mic that isn't listed as supported. I plan to make a demo video and another video to control GPIO pins.
Cool. :)
"needs to work on it's comic delivery"-- I guffawed
Please make more videos about AI on Raspberry Pi!
Definitely more interested in more pi AI content :)
I have a few pi's laying around from past experiments that I can use.
I'd love to see this as an Android app. I think many of us have old phones with good processors we would like to repurpose.
The USB U-Green audio card for the microphone.
Or the Microphone Pi Hat using SPI
Might work. Give it a try! Thanks for your videos
This is the most disinterested AI I've ever heard. I love it!
I was pondering how to describe the voice -- you put it perfectly! :)
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you!
This video was fascinating. I did not know there was an open-source A.I. that was into privacy. Too bad it's not written in python.
7:20 - I love how you arranged the icons on your desktop. :)
Personally I like to keep my desktop clean, thus empty. However it keeps filling with junk.
Hello Chris :)
Massive thanks to your two channels, UA-cam must give this man THE algorithm. Need I say more lol
In all seriousness, bestselling content delivered to your face by a interesting beast!
Tom
Cool setup, thanks Chris for a very useful Pi video.
Wasn't aware that the AIY kit was that expensive. I purchased one from Micro Center here in the US for maybe about $1 a few years back; my interpretation was that the store couldn't get rid of the things fast enough.
I just did this last week. The usb mic I have I'm not sure about and got hold of the PlayStation mic. That works fine! Still works out to be a not cheap alternative using a Pi4 but hopefully keeps it personal and private. God video. ATB
15:00 somehow the wobbly voice makes it even more disconserting
Very clever though
I love your channel and have been watching it for the past year or so. You are always very informative, clear and humorous.
I would love more AI topics
Thanks for this post and for watching. :)
Thank you very much for your outstanding presentation Professor Barnatt. I had long wanted to experiment with voice-activated AI, but hadn't made up my mind to do so because the other "free" services don't respect privacy. This excellent video has provided me with the existence of a private and open source solution. At the moment I have a very tight work schedule but I am planning to experiment with Mycroft for the end of January 2022, but on the Linux platform.
Please I would love to see more Mycroft AI.Greetings.
"Hey Mycroft! What are the last 5 digits of pi?" [Mycroft makes funny noises for a minute] [Raspberry Pi explodes]
Thank you for this video. I have been aware of the Mycroft project and am glad to see that it has produced usable results. And wouldn't you know it, I just happen to have a spare Pi laying around. Oh. But I think with a name like Mycroft, the British male dialect would be most appropriate.
Hey Mycroft send Explaining Computers a thumbs up on their latest video.
I didn’t know about picroft, fantastic video I see a small project coming up for me. Thanks Chris have a great week.
Greeting Mark -- it seems I have given you a task!
The speech synthesis is a little tricky to understand, I'm sure that will improve in the future, quite a fun project though
What a fun project to do and entertain the idea of building a full bodied robotic assistant to place such a Pi device into would take the project to next level. 🤖
The more our society wants to be connected to the internet, the less privacy everyone has. You can not tell me that there are not hackers and Identity thieves that can't get past anyone firewalls, and even break into their VPN. I have an IT person right next door to me and he's actually demonstrated just how easy it is to get into a network without you knowing he's even there. I think I'll leave The Internet of Things alone.
But you always do give us well informed videos on any subject.
This brought back memories of piecost.
Thanks for sharing this. I'll be following these instructions very soon to set up my own Picroft!
A series on the Jetson Nano would be really useful .. both in terms of image processing and audio processing and creating your own classifier models. Thanks.
I did an intro to image processing on a Jetson Nano here: ua-cam.com/video/k5pXXmTkPNM/v-deo.html -- and also a Jetbot video. But you are right, it is something to return to. :)
The pi is excited about its assistant!
It would be cool to hook it up with a battery and sim card pi hat and configure it to go mobile. Great video!
i like the raspberry pi Ai videos i rather see Raspberry pi be the future machines of everything
Great stuff. More of this please. Would love for Mycroft to be able to interface with my homemade PHP central heating control system. 🤓
When he says "So, let's go and get started." I keep thinking he's saying "So, let's go and get sotted".
Certainly one for the tinkerers or those with privecy concerns as it works out way more expensive to construct than to buy an assistant off the shelf. Perhaps if it used one of the very cheap cut-down Rapberry Pi offerings then it might me more appealing to a wider audience.
Still, an interesting and informative presentation as usual. Thanks.
If you have to buy everything brand new, it's not cost-effective. However, if you already have a pi3b or 3b+ that isn't being used, then all you need is a speaker and a mic, which don't have to be the best quality.
@@VeryUsMumblings I suppose there's a chance that people will have redundant hardware that they could use, but I bought 2 Google Hubs (ones with screens) for the price of one of the supported mic options for this project. You do need to have an active speaker and a mic that is going to set you back about the price of a mini assistant and it's probably going to need 2 independent power supplies (i.e. a lot of faff). You are right, some may have all the components required just sat in a drawer...but like I said, probably a tinkerer.
11:39 That was tricky, Chris 😁
I love this video. Please do more raspberry AI stuff if possible
Use Ultrasonic modules to mute any mic.
More videos about Raspberry and AI, please
I would like to see more Pi AI videos beyond Mycroft. It doesn't seem as polished as the others, and the hardware expenses are more. Let's go explore what they haven't gotten into.
Great video! I also use these heatsink cases since the raspberry pi 2! They're great and cool very well.
An interesting video, gives me some idea for how to use a future Pi . As I said before I’m not technical and like my technology plug and play, so I would need to get used to another way of working.